The people of Rass try to discover why the stranger has come to the Island. The elders believe that he is Hiram Wallace, the only son of Captain Charles Wesley Wallace. The abandoned house is the Wallace house. The children in Rass fear the house, believing it to be haunted. The house has been deserted for twenty years, since Captain Wallace passed away. Hiram was also a waterman, but as a young man he left with his father's money to attend college. When he returned to Rass without a degree, the people of Rass said he was different. Hiram worked with his father as a waterman when he returned. There is a rumor that one day, while they were waiting out a bad storm, Hiram cut the mast off his father's boat for.....
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